A few sources I collected:

• Worker militancy, rising wages https://www.workers.org/2015/07/21101/#.WXOlQtPytsM
• China is far more democratic than most western countries and especially in the workplace
• https://socialistchina.org/2022/01/24/china-is-not-a-democracy-or-is-it-the-chinese-toolkit/
• another study showing people in China see it as democratic https://www.newsweek.com/most-china-call-their-nation-democracy-most-us-say-america-isnt-1711176
• the study from the link above https://latana.com/democracy-perception-index/
• government satisfaction https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2021/0218/Vilified-abroad-popular-at-home-China-s-Communist-Party-at-100
• Chinese elections https://mobile.twitter.com/thinking_panda/status/1305784641262026752
• CPC representation
• Is China a democracy?
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Cooperatives in China https://sacu.org/cooperatives
• A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government.
• How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)
• How does China’s political system work?
• How do elections differ from those in western bourgeois democracies?
• Who runs China? Makeup of the national people's congress.
• CPC structure
• Explainer: CPC-led multi-party cooperation and political consultation
• US policy-makers are misjudging popular support China's Government.
• The american dream is alive... in China.
• China more democratic than US
• article on China being more democratic https://www.tbsnews.net/world/china-more-democratic-america-say-people-98686
• democracy study https://en.news-front.info/2020/06/27/studies-have-shown-that-china-is-more-democratic-than-the-united-states-russia-is-nearby-and-ukraine-is-at-the-bottom/
• https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resilience-surveying-chinese-public-opinion-through-time
• https://www.routledge.com/How-China-Escaped-Shock-Therapy-The-Market-Reform-Debate/Weber/p/book/9781032008493

coincidentally (I assume) another user just posted a video about the topic five minutes after this

Early results from yandex (superior to google): https://welcometochina.com.au/how-it-works-todays-government-in-china-6327.html https://multimedia.scmp.com/widgets/china/govt-explainer/index.html

I saw an amazing video by Chinese state media a while ago that really opened my eyes to the inner workings of the NPC. They interviewed a worker at an electric bike factory who held some position of power within the NPC and she elucidated what she did there on behalf of the workers.

I am absolutely pissed that I can't find it. If anyone knows, it's an English guy interviewing people. IIRC it displays a local vote on how to allocate recently built housing, and the people unanimously decide the most fair way to do it is practically to draw straws - random, but it's a creative solution stemming from the masses, and everyone accepts the outcome.

The English guy also does a sick production ramp ride-off on an electric bike.

Sorry I wasn't more helpful comrade. I'm hoping someone reads this and knows what video I'm talking about lol

late to the party but for posterity sake i'll recommend Roland Boer's Communism with Chinese Characteristics for Foreigners.